Menantu Pahlawan Negara by Sarjana

Chapter 151

Leslie’s gaze sharpened. He wondered if his mother had told Aurelia about his true identity.

“What else could I be?” he asked coldly.

Aurelia didn’t sense anything odd. After all, Leslie had always been cold and distant.

“Maybe a businessman. You’re just as cunning as one,” Aurelia replied with an awkward laugh. “A cunning businessman, huh?”

Leslie put down his cup and wiped his hands.

Aurelia chuckled but eventually quieted down, realizing that it had been a bad joke. “Sorry.”

“If I’m a cunning businessman, what does that make you? A cunning businessman’s wife?” he asked.

Silence fell over them instantly. They were both rendered speechless as their conversation suddenly shifted to the topic of “wife”.

Aurelia was unsure of how to react to this.

Leslie wiped his mouth and changed the subject. “I’m done eating. It’s settled then. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just be yourself on Friday.”

Aurelia nodded. “Thank you. Sorry for troubling you.”

nonchalantly and stood up. Aurelia followed suit

restaurant,

angled it slightly toward Leslie. However, he was too tall,

couple of steps before his head bumped into the top of the umbrella.

“I’ll hold it.”

Aurelia said, looking up at him with a

saw her smile, Leslie’s grip around the umbrella’s

lustrous black hair, fair skin,

that he

himself

their shadows on the ground, she noticed that the

touched by this detail. Then, she was reminded of the three years she had spent with

her up. But by

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would complain incessantly about getting

come to pick you up. I’m doing this because I love you so much. You should treat me better in

course,” she had

person would tend to magnify the other person’s virtues and overlook the

that Seth coming to pick her up in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact that the umbrella had never once

pastries wafted over as she was lost in her

the direction the smell was coming from, just to see people